Word: across-the-board
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...fraud," Wilson railed last week. "The short answer is that for some months now no one has governed Britain." Labor's battle cry will be a "fair society," accompanied by a promise to repeal the hated Industrial Relations Act, which sharply restricts union activities, introduce across-the-board food subsidies and set up a new prices-and-income board under the direct control of Parliament. The party's strongest pitch will be on inflation. Food prices have gone up 18% in the past year, mortgage rates to a record...
Many oil firms want to become across-the-board energy producers, and they already control some 30% of the nation's coal reserves. This diversification is raising questions among trustbusters, who worry that the energy corporations are becoming too powerful. From the coal producers' view, there is one great advantage to being owned by a larger corporation: money. The coal producers need plenty of it to expand operations, improve work conditions, and buy new machines. By being attached to a huge corporation-particularly a highly profitable oil company-a coal producer usually has an easier time raising capital...
...course, that Heath may have politics as well as economics on his mind: he could be maneuvering to back the miners down by exaggerating their role in the crisis; at the same time he could be trying to boost his public support by avoiding unpopular measures like an across-the-board raise in income taxes. Thus if the miners fail to come to terms, Heath still has one last option: he could call new elections and seek a vote of confidence...
Some chemicals have been in short supply in the U.S. because world prices are higher than controlled U.S. prices. The steel industry maintains that it needs a 5.3% across-the-board price increase, partly in order to finance badly needed plant expansions. But the COLC is reluctant to decontrol these industries because steel and chemicals are basic products from which a myriad of other goods are manufactured. Permitting their prices to go up would surely create a ripple of new inflation that would spread through many other industries. Such a surge would add to an inflation rate that even Eternal...
...junta has also moved vigorously in the economic sector, which Allende left a shambles. Draconian measures such as the summary execution of black marketeers, an across-the-board freeze on wages and the drastic devaluation of the escudo have stabilized prices. Under Allende, inflation had risen more than 300%. The lucrative copper mines, which were plagued with labor strife, are functioning smoothly again. The junta has also announced its interest in negotiating with foreigners to lure badly needed investments to the country. Striking truckers are back at work, and food and other staples are beginning to flow into the major...